Speed run of Contra done on February 18 2006. Available in four versions: low quality, normal quality, and 60fps high/insane quality.

I started this back in October of 2005, but left it unfinished as repeatedly playing this game got boring very quickly. At the end of January, there was a sudden onslaught of people claiming they had completed the run in approximately 12 minutes, but no runs ever surfaced, to my everlasting disappointment. I got tired of all these seemingly spurious claims, so I decided to finish what I had started three months earlier. This took about two weeks of practice and three days of recording, which made it a thankfully quick project. I really didn't have any idea of what time to expect, but after the first couple failed attempts at recording, I claimed that somewhere around 11:45 was a pretty fair estimate for the perfect time. Well, that estimate was quite a bit off, as this run proves.

The only thing needing explaining might be my choice of using laser instead of spread in Base2. I did a couple timings, and found that Base2 goes about 5-10 seconds quicker using laser, depending on how the boss battle goes. I've done it quicker than what I submitted, but only one time out of about 100. I'm pretty satisified with this run, although looking back, my strategy in Hangar is a bit conservative, and could probably be improved by about 5 seconds with a bit of luck. I estimate I made around 15 seconds of mistakes. Hopefully this will quiet down everyone who was clamoring for an original Contra run.

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